Daniel P. Diaz

“It is here that we touch on the neuralgic point of the modern age: the concept of truth has in practice been abandoned and replaced by the concept of progress. Progress itself “is” truth. But this apparent elevation deprives progress of all contents; it dissolves into nothing. For if there is no direction, everything can be interpreted either as progress or as regress.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future

“A man of conscience is one who never purchases comfort, well-being, success, public prestige, or approval by prevalent opinion if the price is the renunciation of truth.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future

“When conscience falls silent and we do nothing to resist it, the consequence is the dehumanization of the world and a deadly danger.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future

“Jesus cannot work effectively among the righteous because they sense no need for forgiveness and repentance; their conscience no longer accuses them but only justifies them.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Values in a Time of Upheaval: Meeting the Challenges of the Future